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Nguyet Edmondson

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:50:55 PM8/3/24

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Hi, might be a long shot. Im trying to load an old DOS game on my Galaxy S2. Its Championship Manager 9798. I've managed to get the program to start but when I select the 8MB game the program crashes and I get a message in DOS stating - Programme Termination : Cannot run progress, type CM2E8 from the command line to run this version of the game.
This error usually occurs when attempting to run the application with very little memory available.
When I've looked at the system spec for this game its very small compared to my phones capability.
Is there an obvious reason why this wouldn't work?
Thanks for any help.

Sorry last message sent incorrectly. apologies i don't know. Just got a new phone and thought it would straight forward as it was on pc. one thing i did try was to run a different exe file to start the program as it said above cm2e8. This should run the 8mb version i presume. When i run that it came back with another error within the program saying another 212k ram needed. A bit odd as my free ram is about 550mb ram. sorry if im being stupid here.
Thanks

No problem, all I did was change the memsize settings, nothing ingenious about it. ?
DOSBox is great fun on today's phones/tablets, finally there's enough cpu power to run more demanding DOS games. It keeps me alive every morning on the train, I've played through Doom I & II, Warcraft II and Wing Commander I & II already and started crawling through the Stygian Abyss last week. Who needs crappy smartphone games anyway? ?

Hi, I'm just wondering if you would be able to help. I am trying to get championship manager 9798 working on a galaxy to, but am a step behind as I can't even get the game to load. Every time I try to type the file location into dosbox, it says illegal command? I've tried every way I can think, even putting 'cd' before the location. any help would be appreciated.

Sounds more like your mountings are incorrect. What folder did you copy CM9798 to? Take a look at the [autoexec] section of the conf files I posted above, that should give you a basic idea.
"Illegal command" means you typed something DOS(Box) doesn't understand - either a non-existent filename/command or an existing filename outside the directory it's located in.

In Dosbox Turbo, look at your settings and see where the dosbox.conf file is situated. Using a text editor, edit this file and change the last statement of mount command to reflect where your Dos files are. In the example above, your last few lines of the dosbox.conf should read as :

I have today been forced to replace it with my last x86 pc from my store cupboard. Is it possible to get Windows 7 to run a previous version of DOS. I know that I could run the program in Windows 95 mode but I need it to run as a DOS prompt rather than Windows 95.

I also need to load a memory manager of some description as I need at least 628K of ram available. If a DOS VM can be created can I still use a config.sys file to load all the drivers into high memory.

They are floppy image files and any number of programs can either extract them, or you can use imgmount in dosbox to mount and install. As noted above, you can still get 3.5" drives in USB (the images above are 3.5" images as well), and you can and should be able to install with any Int13h happy motherboard.

If the archive version of Dos 5.0 does not work. Let me know. I think I still have a shrink wrapped version of MS Dos 5.0 some where at home in a box. But It might be 6.22. Any ways let me know if you need me to look around for it.

Test out other DOS type versions, FreeDOS and a couple of others. DOSBox is a good option and runs under Linux so you can run it on just about any machine. Biggest factor will be does the machine you want to use have the ports you need to make the machine work!

aFreeBox is a free app for Android published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities.

The company that develops aFreeBox is Fishstix. The latest version released by its developer is 2.1.21.

To install aFreeBox on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2015-04-02 and was downloaded 96 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the aFreeBox as malware as malware if the download link to com.fishstix.dosboxfree is broken.

How to install aFreeBox on your Android device:

Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
Once the aFreeBox is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
A pop-up window with the permissions required by aFreeBox will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
aFreeBox will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.

Does anyone know of a Stella emulator for the Android platform? I do a lot of coding on the go, and I'd like to test it too. I could just use dosbox (which is how I'm running dasm), but that'd be messy.

Yeah, I guess I should have mentioned, I'm not a huge fan of randomly installing apps from an unknown developer on the same phone I manage my bank accounts on. (I don't like not knowing what permissions I'm granting apps) :-)

Loon, there's apps for it, though ive never used them. But if youre looking for something more techanical, you could probably just add a bash script at the end of the INI file in the root directory, I'm pretty sure there is a section of "what to do at boot" in there somewhere.

Ok, well I only just figured out how to view permissions outside of the app store, so I'm gonna try around. I'd still like to hear what other people are running, or if anyone has seen the actual Stella emulator on android.

2600.emu in the Google play store is fantastic and well worth the 3 bucks. It holds its own against Stella. You can customize the touch controls or use a plug in controller through USB (I use a real Atari joystick with an adaptor through my tablet). It supports Bluetooth as well.

I've been using Ataroid with satisfaction. I may give the one(s) on the market a try, I'm getting less stingy about paying for apps. I feel like I may have derailed my own topic with the security thing, lol. Nonetheless, I tried DroidWall and it was alright. I think it did it's job quite well (in fact, it broke my browser), but felt I was just being paranoid, so I uninstalled it. I don't make a habit of installing apps I don't really need anyway.

Same as on the PC; using a port of DOSBox, point dasm(.exe) to your source and run it via an emulator. It's been a while since I've done it, but I just got FreeBox off the market and ran the bin though ataroid (not on the market) with success.